11-letter words containing n, a, c, h, o, s
- chrysomonad — any golden-yellow to brown freshwater algae of the class Chrysomonadales (phylum Chrysophyta), living singly or in colonies; blooms may color the water brown.
- chum salmon — a large salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) with pale flesh, found in the N Pacific
- cladanthous — pleurocarpous.
- clean house — to clean and put a home in order
- coelacanths — Plural form of coelacanth.
- cohabitants — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- corinthians — either of two books of the New Testament (in full The First and Second Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians)
- corn starch — Corn starch is a fine white powder made from corn, used as a thickener or binder in the manufacture of drugs.
- cymophanous — lustrous; brilliant
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- decahedrons — Plural form of decahedron.
- diachronism — the passage of a geological formation across time planes, as occurs when a marine sediment laid down by an advancing sea is noticeably younger in the direction of advancement
- discophoran — a member of the Discophora group
- disharmonic — lacking harmony; disharmonious; discordant.
- dysharmonic — relating to abnormal bone development
- encroachers — Plural form of encroacher.
- fianchettos — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fianchetto.
- ghost dance — a ritual dance intended to establish communion with the dead, especially such a dance as performed by various messianic western American Indian cults in the late 19th century.
- half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
- halocarbons — Plural form of halocarbon.
- hand scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
- handscrolls — Plural form of handscroll.
- harmonicist — Someone who plays the harmonica.
- harmonistic — pertaining to a harmonist or harmony.
- hash coding — (programming, algorithm) (Or "hashing") A scheme for providing rapid access to data items which are distinguished by some key. Each data item to be stored is associated with a key, e.g. the name of a person. A hash function is applied to the item's key and the resulting hash value is used as an index to select one of a number of "hash buckets" in a hash table. The table contains pointers to the original items. If, when adding a new item, the hash table already has an entry at the indicated location then that entry's key must be compared with the given key to see if it is the same. If two items' keys hash to the same value (a "hash collision") then some alternative location is used (e.g. the next free location cyclically following the indicated one). For best performance, the table size and hash function must be tailored to the number of entries and range of keys to be used. The hash function usually depends on the table size so if the table needs to be enlarged it must usually be completely rebuilt. When you look up a name in the phone book (for example), you typically hash it by extracting its first letter; the hash buckets are the alphabetically ordered letter sections. See also: btree, checksum, CRC, pseudorandom number, random, random number, soundex.
- heteroscian — a name applied to the people who live in temperate zones, so given because in these areas shadows created by the sun at noon will fall in opposite directions
- hexastichon — hexastich.
- horn clause — (logic) A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- horseracing — Alternative form of horse racing.
- house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
- hsuan chiao — Taoism (def 2).
- hyoscyamine — a poisonous alkaloid, C 17 H 23 NO 3 , obtained from henbane and other solanaceous plants, used as a sedative, analgesic, mydriatic, and antispasmodic.
- icosahedron — a solid figure having 20 faces.
- insomuch as — to such an extent or degree; so (usually followed by that).
- intraschool — Within a single school.
- janus cloth — a worsted fabric, each side of which has a different color.
- launch shoe — an attachment to an aircraft from which a missile is launched
- machinators — Plural form of machinator.
- macintoshes — Plural form of macintosh.
- marchioness — marquise (defs 1, 2).
- menthaceous — belonging to the Menthaceae, a former name for the plant family Labiatae.
- mesognathic — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
- mochaccinos — Plural form of mochaccino.
- monarchists — Plural form of monarchist.
- monochasial — Relating to the monochasium.
- monochasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which the main axis produces only a single branch.
- nacogdoches — a city in N Texas.
- nanophysics — the physics of structures and artefacts with dimensions in the nanometre range or of phenomena occurring in nanoseconds
- nicholas ii — (Gérard de Bourgogne) died 1061, pope 1058–61.
- nicholas iv — (Girolamo Masci) died 1292, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1288–92.